46th chat, November 24 2015: #critlib and hiring practices

Moderated by @PoorCharlotte and @EamonTewell

Storify by @hsifnihplod

Anonymous posting: Talking about hiring and your place of work can be a sensitive subject. Chat participants who would like to post responses anonymously are welcome to send a DM (direct message) to @EamonTewell before or during the chat. Eamon will then share during the chat without revealing sources. (More info about how to send a DM.)

Suggested readings:

• “Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship” by Angela Galvan:  http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/soliciting-performance-hiding-bias-whiteness-and-librarianship/
• “Get a Job” by Ruth Collings: http://blog.ruthcollings.ca/get-a-job/

Discussion questions:

• Q1. In what ways have you been a part of hiring processes? #critlib
• Q2. How do hiring practices in libraries perpetuate existing systems of inequality? #critlib
• Q3. How could hiring practices in libraries take biases into account? #critlib
• Q4. What actions can we take to change discriminatory and oppressive hiring practices? #critlib
• Q5. What might a #critlib hiring process look like?